It's quite possibly the biggest high school boys basketball game of the season in Syracuse. On Saturday, the No. 1 ranked Class B team in the state will meet the team that was ranked No. 1 in Class A until a weekend loss. Both have spent the season at the top of the CNY media polls.

It's Westhill vs. Bishop Ludden in the local version of the Backyard Brawl. The two schools in Geddes are so close to one another, they can see one another's facilities outside their backdoors.

The Class B Warriors are 15-0. The Class A Gaelic Knights are 12-1. They're scheduled to go at it at 1:30 Saturday at the Allyn Hall Gymnasium on the campus of Onondaga Community College.

It immediately begs the question: Where?

Why isn't the game in the bigger, more accommodating SRC Arena next door? After all, Allyn Hall has a bleacher seating capacity of 1,592 while SRC Arena seats upward of 6,000.

That's a fair question, says Anthony Richmond, director of the More Than A Game Foundation that is sponsoring the Westhill-Ludden game along with several other high school contests this weekend at OCC.

Here's what happened:

The Westhill-Ludden game was originally scheduled for a night tipoff at SRC Arena. Both coaches, Richmond said, asked that tipoff to be moved up so it wouldn't conflict with the Syracuse-Duke game on Saturday night at 6:30.

The OCC men and women have home games scheduled during the afternoon at SRC Arena. There's also an alumni game for the main SRC court as well.

All things considered - and the huge crowd expected for the high school contest - would it make more sense to flip the high school game with the OCC game?

"It wouldn’t be possible – a great thought and one game I wanted in the SRC from the beginning – but the OCC men have their alumni game, followed by their game and it is a new tradition that the game is played in the arena," Richmond said.

"I did speak to (Westhill head coach) Kevin (King), and (he) liked the idea of packing Allyn Hall and creating an amazing atmosphere – one that sometimes can get lost in the big arenas."

Syracuse Auditor Marty Masterpole, a former Onondaga County legislator, is the public address announcer for Bishop Ludden home games. He questioned why the game wasn't in the larger facility.

"As an avid fan of high school basketball, I'm going to love Allyn Hall," he said Thursday afternoon. "But if you turn anyone away, it's going to look bad."

"It's going to be a great atmosphere regardless of where they have the game," Masterpole added. "Will it be double of what a CBA-Ludden game would draw? Who knows? But you don't want to turn people away because Allyn is full while SRC isn't."